Family Tree Review
Family Tree is Tom Chapin's groundbreaking first family recording. Includes the now-classic title track Family Tree, as well as This Pretty Planet played on the Space Shuttle Discovery to wake the astronauts. The album also features guest vocalist Judy Collins. The album is a winner of a Parents' Choice Award and also named a Notable Children's Recording by the American Library Association. Read more...
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Family Tree ranks as singer/songwriter Tom Chapin's best overall children's release. Chapin applies a grand musical scheme, integrating horns, well-recorded large ensembles, and more, which results in a mix that will wow parents and kids alike. He prefers narrative-oriented songs, and here does a wonderful job on a father-son relationship in "Shovelling" and includes a touching lullaby-like farewell to friends on "Together Tomorrow." Unlike lots of children's music, in which a simple vibe is struck and then stuck with throughout, this collection varies with each song, often using humor to ease kids into a realm where they can grasp some kernel of truth about themselves and their parents. His take on the "Big Rock Candy Mountain" is inventive (and shrewdly avoids the liquor-guzzling references in the original), and there's a politically progressive angle to the entire recording. --Andrew Bartlett
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